Dog Health Questions: Can i teach my dog to learn foreign language commands?

well, cops train german Sheppards in different languages so the people the dogs are after cant call them off. i want the same effect with my new dog (didnt get him yet) is there some place i can get a dog training guide for police dogs or something of the sort?? the reason i want one on one commands is because it is a Hokkaido Inu (which was originally bred in japan for bear hunting... thats just a really cool fact lol) and i do plan on having it as a hunting dog/partner & best friend. so... idea's?

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• Sure ... any commands you teach the dog are foreign (to the dog)!
  
  Dogs "speak" and understand one language ... DOG! Commands like "sit" "stay" "roll over" "Angriff" [Literal translation of the word "attack" in German (google translator)], etc are all "foreign" commands to the dog.
  
  You just train the dog to do what you want ... when you speak a certain word! The dog knows no meaning for the word beyond what you teach it. You could [conceivably] teach a dog to sit using the command "attack"! It would be weird, but possible!
  
  Use the training techniques you want, the commands you choose ... but be consistent! The dog will be trained to perform a specific act according to the command you give. He will not know what "language" you are speaking ... it's ALL foreign to him!


• Your dog will learn a command in any language including Klingon.
  The dog is not hearing the specific word but the sound and associates the sound with what you trained him to do.
  
  BTW the reason most of the police dogs are trained in a foreign language is that those dogs were first trained in the country of that language. Also a nice fact very few K9s are German Shepard anymore because of poor over breeding in the past. Most are Belgium Malois, they look the same to the uneducated eye.
  
  My neighbor's K9 was breed to tree raccoons in Tennessee. but he is more of a search dog than an attack dog, can recognize over 40 different kinds of narcotics.


• why do you need a police command book..just talk to the dog in the language you want it to learn in.
  (it's not rocket science...just speak the language)


• The foreign language commands are pretty easy, I would just use a translator to translate a few basic commands into whatever language. This is really only a novelty, considering that you can't teach the command in English unless you want to confuse it.
  Few things about the dog though, I have no clue where you are living, but checkout your towns local laws. This dog sounds similar to a Japanese akita, which falls under the same restrictions as pit bull and rotweilers in the U.S. this could lead to you not being able to own it, to a high home owners insurance rate. Also, with the recent incident in Japan, the odds of being able to import one of these dogs is probably low, and besides that breeders for this type of dog in the U.S. are probably far and in between. I am not saying, don't try it just do some more reading before you attempt to buy, also with this type of dog if you are going to breed get its breeding papers.